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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 December 2014
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Car manufacturer Ford will create 1,000 new jobs at its plant in Almussafes (Spain). 200 jobs will be created in December 2014. The remaining jobs will be created during 2015. On the other hand, elections for sections unions within the company will be held in February 2015.
This is the second business expansion of this plant. In 2013, the company re-introduced night shift and created 1000 jobs. This information was previously reported in the ERM.
Sources
13 December 2014: ABC
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Ford, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 78005, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78005.
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